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Authorised form of nameHevesy; George Charles de (1885 - 1966)
Other forms of nameGeorge de
Dates1885 - 1966
Place of birthBudapest, Hungary
Date of birth01 August 1885
Date of death05/07/1966
ActivityMedals and prizes:
Nobel Prize (Chemistry) 1943
Membership categoryForeign Member
Date of election11/05/1939
RSActivityMedals and prizes:
Copley Medal 1949
SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll
Authority:
Altname from Record
Obituaries:
Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 1967 vol 13 pp 125-166, plate, by J D Cockcroft
CodeNA5854
Archives associated with this Fellow
RefNoTitleDate
EC/1939/23Hevesy, George Charles de: certificate of election to the Royal Society
NLB/68/743Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to the Secretary of the Clarendon Press; Oxford28 October 1925
IM/Meitner Graf/002073Hevesy, George Charles dend
PB/1/33/2Correspondence concerning the Copley Medal of the Royal Society1956
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